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I don't know if this qualifies as a bug. It appears that my host has recently done a massive update, perhaps including changing the PHP version (it's now 4.4.7). The result of this for me has been that when I edit or create a post, slashes are inserted before every apostrophe, quote, and slash. Thus, I type "aren't" and, upon hitting save, I see (and on the web is) the word "aren/'t".

I googled this and there's a post on this forum from a few years ago saying that the problem was likely PHP's smart quotes.

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?p=26 ... a77bffc245

The solution was to put the line "set_magic_quotes_runtime( 0 );" into the file serendipity_functions.inc.php. This file no longer seems to exist in Serendipity. (?) So I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas? Thanks!

Hi!

I would suggest you to talk to your provider so that they can revert this "magic_quotes_runtime" behavior, because it actually disturbs a lot of functionality!

In newer s9y versions you can try to put that PHP command into the "serendipity_config.inc.php" file at the top of it.

Regards,
Garvin

Garvin,

Thanks for the very prompt response.

Unfortunately, putting that line into that file doesn't work. While waiting for my host to deal with this, I started looking through the code and found that in include/compat.inc.php, there's a section labeled with the following comment:

/*
* Avoid magic_quotes_gpc issues
* courtesy of iliaa@php.net
*/

The test for whether to run the function defined there is

if (ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')) {

If I change this to a simple "if(1)" the function seems to run because backslashes are no longer being added willy-nilly to my posts, and thus, at least superficially, my problem is solved.

Now, it's certainly possible that this could break something else, so I still want to get my host to change things on their end. But I thought I'd post this to show how I ended up (for now) fixing things.

Hi!

Yeah, adding that change definitely helps. It might be because your provider disabled the ini_get() function. But definitely something changed in their PHP configuration for worse.

Regards,
Garvin